I've made a map inspired by Settlers of Catan and I'd like your feedback

[Greg-J]

Hello fellow Cims!

Imgur link to album: http://imgur.com/a/Pryqa

I've been mapping since Jedi Acadamy, but I've only done a few heightmaps and wanted to try my hand at something different for Cities Skylines. I saw that nobody else had really done anything truly geometric so I decided to create a map using hexagonal tiles inspired by the game Settlers of Catan.

Each tile is 40px from edge to edge, so about 7 hexagon tiles per Cities Skylines tile.

There are all of the resources, flowing water, and all external connections.

The entire thing was built in Photoshop using the shape tool and then hand-tooled for smoothing.

I'd love some suggestions.

Steam Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=418074559

 

[Joelioto]

Very creative idea, looks cool. Have you tried making a city on it, does it play any different than you would expect?

 

[Greg-J]

Playing it made me realize placing roads in the middle of the tiles might not have been as good as if I stayed on the other edges. If the height difference is more than 40 units, bridges take a fair bit of distance to transition the elevation changes.

I think I'm going to create another version where the tiles are roughly the size of the game tiles and stay more true to the Settlers theme, but it was a fun map to make.

 

[Joelioto]

Keep going at it, refine it a bit more and I'm sure it will be a fun/interesting map to play. I was thinking you would place the highways along the edges of the hexagons.